The Official Crysis 2 Thread

[THE_STIG]

Actually movies are usually at around 24 fps so in theory anything over that is supposed to be smooth, in the first Crysis 24 fps was considered good at one time .

[Mystical_Titan]

Well, you can clearly see the difference between 40 and 60.

[StarBound]

Crysis 2 benchmarks shows that crysis 2 looses about 30% performance when using SLI or Crossfire. A recent patch did increase my framerate though. And as far as framerates go I am not disabling SLI but I am also not getting my full speed because my screen only refreshs at 60hz. Maybe I should look into a 3d LCD just to get 120hz.

[Mystical_Titan]

Well, I was running the game and then noticed that SLi was disabled in the nVidia Control Panel. When I switched it back on, no real increase in my MINIMUM frames, which is the important one.

[ryanrich]

Finished the game tonight. I enjoyed it overall and found it to be a good length for an FPS. They definitely paved the way for more sequels...

[THE_STIG]

Well, you can clearly see the difference between 40 and 60.

That you can, but 40fps(average) should be quite smooth

[Mystical_Titan]

That it is, not jerky or anything, but 60 is just a much more pleasant experience.

[THE_STIG]

That it is, not jerky or anything, but 60 is just a much more pleasant experience.

+1, I remember the days when I battled to run Quake 3, and the new games at the time(Battlefield Vietnam for example) ran at about 2 fps . I really do not miss that Rage 128pro

Crysis 2 is not very demanding, especially when you compare it to the first one, so 40+ fps in hardcore mode is not that hard to achieve.

[StarBound]

Hehe. That's called catching up to technology. I still remember running quake 2 in windowed software mode and then switching to a voodoo2.

[THE_STIG]

BTW I always hated the Rage 128 pro(32mb DDR), even when it was new it struggled with Quake 3. It was a driver related problem, but back then with 56k dial-up getting different drivers was expensive and time consuming, eventually we got some drivers that sorted things out a bit.

[StarBound]

I dont remember the rage pro ever having ddr memory. Only from Radeon up did ddr make an appearance on ATI cards and a few months after the geforce 256 DDR.

[Mystical_Titan]

I'm waiting (perhaps in vain) for Kalahari to get more stock of the free t-shirt edition, but looks like it was a one-time thing.

[THE_STIG]

I dont remember the rage pro ever having ddr memory. Only from Radeon up did ddr make an appearance on ATI cards and a few months after the geforce 256 DDR.

I don't really remember I think it was actually SDRAM, did you have a RAGE 128?

I will try and find my rage 128 and have a look at what type of ram it has.

[Mystical_Titan]

Are there any benifits to picking up the in-game collectables?

[StarBound]

I dont remember the rage pro ever having ddr memory. Only from Radeon up did ddr make an appearance on ATI cards and a few months after the geforce 256 DDR.

I don't really remember I think it was actually SDRAM, did you have a RAGE 128?

I will try and find my rage 128 and have a look at what type of ram it has.

The Rage 128 and Rage pro had normal SDRam. The first geforce came out with SDram aswell and the 2nd one was the geforce 256 ddr. The first Radeon came out and had DDR, same time the geforce 2 gts was released and the voodoo 5 5500 was still sdram.

[Mystical_Titan]

Guys, please, you are losing the plot here.

[THE_STIG]

Ok, back to Crysis 2.

@MT. I don't know, the collectables don't seem to do much

[Mystical_Titan]

My game just asked me to activate it again.

[THE_STIG]

Strange, did you make any major changes to the PC by any chance??

[Mystical_Titan]

Nope... was playing earlier today and when I went in again a bit later it asked me to re-activate.

[Mystical_Titan]

It seems with the new nVidia drivers I can now get a constant 60 FPS on Extreme too.

[StarBound]

Which means I will be able to get a 120hz screen and get 120fps constant

[Mystical_Titan]

Porbably not that high... but you never know.

Really enjoying Crysis 2. It's less demanding than Crysis was when it came out and, despite the slightly more linnear gameplay, the storyline is much more interesting, the game involves you more.

[StarBound]

I disagree. I prefer the guy I play with to talk.

[Mystical_Titan]

Minor details. Doesn't make any difference to me.